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Love Data Week 2026, February 9-13
January 22, 2026 Celebrate your data during Love Data Week! Love Data Week takes place every year around Valentine’s day. Universities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations and individuals are encouraged to host and participate in data-related events and activities. Our programming includes sessions from several BC universities (SFU, UBC, UNBC, and UVic), but you don’t have to attend […]Tagged with:
Love Data Week 2025, February 10-14
January 10, 2025 Celebrate your data in 2025’s Love Data Week! Scheduled for the week of Valentine’s Day, this year’s events are all linked to Abacus, a data repository collaboration involving libraries at Simon Fraser University (SFU), the University of British Columbia (UBC), the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) and the University of Victoria (UVic). Our programming […]Tagged with:
Love Data Week 2024, February 12-16
January 15, 2024 Celebrate your data in 2024’s Love Data Week! Scheduled for the week of Valentine’s Day, this year’s theme is “my kind of data.” It’s celebration of data in all its forms. Don’t just be the data, love the data! This year’s Love Data Week is joint effort from the libraries at Simon Fraser University, the […]Tagged with:
Love Data Week 2023: Feb 13-17
January 10, 2023 Love Data Week is an international celebration of all things data, scheduled annually in the week of Valentine’s Day. Its aim is to engage community and increase awareness with events that highlight the prominence, value, and appropriate handling of data in our lives and research. International Love Data Week events are promoted by the Inter-university […]Tagged with: Love Data Week, Research Commons
Love Data Week: Feb 14-18
January 19, 2022 Love Data Week is an international celebration of all things data, scheduled annually in the week of Valentine's Day. Click to see the full week of events offered by the libraries at UBC, SFU, UNBC, and UVic.Tagged with:
TLEF grant funding ends, impacts continue for years to come
September 3, 2021 Read about and check out the innovative content created by the UBC LIbrary Research Commons Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs).Tagged with:
Call for Proposals – GIS Day 2021
September 1, 2021 Be an integral part of GIS Day 2021 - Be a presenter! Click image to submit proposal.Tagged with:
New open source data-confirmation utility: damage (data manifest generator)
June 21, 2021 Paul Lesack, our multitalented Data/GIS Analyst in the UBC Library Research Commons, recently created a data manifest generator called damage that helps to verify the integrity of downloaded datasets. Damage is an open-source utility for both Mac and Windows with associated Python libraries for many different systems. This utility was created to assist the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI), which is a partnership between post-secondary institutions and Statistics Canada. The purpose of the damage utility is to create standardized documents which definitively describe the contents of data sets. Users can confirm with confidence that what they have […]Tagged with:
UBC Library Research Commons launches new software pipeline to connect Dryad to Dataverse
June 3, 2021 In the research world, data sharing is more important than ever. With more data created daily, it gets harder to find—information is scattered everywhere, instead of being in one place. UBC’s primary research data repository is located at Scholars Portal Dataverse. While it contains a large portion of UBC’s research data output, it doesn’t capture […]Tagged with: Dryad, Dryad2Dataverse, Scholars Portal